2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America on Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections: Utility of Intra-abdominal Fluid Cultures in Adults, Children, and Pregnant People

Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 4;79(Supplement_3):S123-S126. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae353.

Abstract

This paper is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In this paper, the panel provides recommendations for obtaining cultures of intra-abdominal fluid in patients with known or suspected intra-abdominal infection. The panel's recommendations are based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adhere to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.

Keywords: fluid culture; guideline; intra-abdominal infection; microbiology; peritoneal fluid.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intraabdominal Infections* / diagnosis
  • Intraabdominal Infections* / microbiology
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnosis
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / microbiology
  • United States